This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! Who is Riker (of Riker's Mailbox)? The producer of Hoist lived next to Jonathan Frakes, whose mailbox is apparently uniquely decorated. Frakes, who plays Commander Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation (thus the title "Riker's Mailbox"), also plays trombone, so sat in for a bit during the Hoist recording sessions. <SPE9237@acfcluster.nyu.edu> reported 4/5/94 (reportedly from Mike) that the track "is a tiny fragment of a fully-recorded Hoist outtake, called either "Buffalo Bill" or "Buffalo Bob". You'll notice that everyone's shouting "Olaffub" during the song. "Buffalo Bill" --That IS the name, Trey just quoted it in a newsletter or somewhere--had all kinds of weird production shit on it. Some parts were played backwards, and some lyrics were recorded pronounced backwards to be played back-to front. It was left off the album because it was felt that it skewed the album towards being too goofy. I think it's a pretty long track, maybe 7 minutes--that number sticks in my mind. I also don't think they ever mixed the whole thing. I got the sense that there may be moments of the attempt at recording it in the upcoming documentary." Buffalo Bill (which is reportedly a verb -- ever see Deliverence?) has been played only live 11/21/92, 10/29/94, 12/31/94, 8/17/97, 11/29/97, 11/27/98, 12/18/99. Thanks also to Andreas Schaefer <jerry@muc.de<, Jake Morrill <jmorrill@vt.edu>, Brett Sterba <bwster@maila.wm.edu>, and Tom Baynes <tomspictureofnectar@yahoo.com>. "Where words fail, music speaks." -- Hans Christian Anderson This page last updated June 01, 2009. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.